A water column was recently added to the rail park at the intersection of Commerce Road, South Coalter Street and Greenville Avenue.

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Train cars can't just be turned around. Just like a vinyl album on a record player, a car must be rotated in place to face the opposite direction.

One place that happened is now a rail park in Staunton across from the watering can on Coalter Street downtown. A structure that looks to passers-by like a giant faucet adds to the attraction's profile. The circular area below serves as the site's foundation.

"This was a turntable so that rail cars on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad ? could turn the engine around and put it to the other end of the train," said Bob Nutt, of the Valley Feed Co. ...